"It took them three or four years to get it right," recalls Felix J. Jimenez, the D.E.A.'s New York bureau chief, "to procure the proper refining know-how and precursor chemicals like acetic anhydride".
The starting point of the study is the underlying rationale of much of the service purchasing literature that buyers have or can easily access the necessary know-how to procure business services.
He put his insider know-how to work to procure supplies, order blood tests, win the sign-off of a local ethics committee, and engage a plastic surgeon who helped give him two treatments, a small dose in 2015 and then a larger one last June.
Foreign investors are sources of capital, foreign exchange and technical know-how; they can create jobs, provide goods and services and also procure these from local firms.
The time it takes to procure, develop and produce new weapons (which can be as long as 18 years) should be slashed; the Pentagon must become a more sophisticated buyer of commercial technology, even as it preserves the secrecy of its own know-how.
Geringer-Dunn, a pescatarian who lives in the neighborhood and likes to cook, wanted easy access to the stuff; Milburn, his friend and former music-business associate, knew how best to procure it, as the great-great-grandson of the founder of the thriving Boston fish wholesaler John Nagle Co.
She procured a couple of bicycles for the airmen to ride by night, only to discover that neither knew how to ride a bicycle.
Apparently, local authorities are finding it hard to know how to interpret and implement the act and its core requirement that they give consideration to: "how what is proposed to be procured might improve the economic, social and environmental wellbeing of the relevant area, and how, in conducting the process of procurement, it might act with a view to securing that improvement".
In an NHS where GPs are expected to procure better care for less, the report, written by former NHS high flyer Mark Britnell, quotes Sir Ian Carruthers, who ran the health service in south-west England: "We know that we now have to do it on a larger scale … yet we do not yet know how".
"An entrepreneur knows how".
